Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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